skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But even in a margin account, the broker just "does it" and it shows up as an order after the fact, not one you can see in advance and cancel, AFAIK.
I wouldn't call the catalysts made-up, necessarily
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> Citadel has exposure to a short position in GME due to their deal

No, they don't. It's not pedantic - Citadel literally does not have a short position or exposure to a short position in GME.
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This really is the worst of both worlds for the employees. Employees are still bound to a physical location, but you also have to maintain a home office and heterogenous communications stack [0]. Also, coordinating who is in the office when is a nightmare and can often lead to oversubscribed days.

The only utility I can see is if you need to run for appointments that are easier to do when working from home, but this is less about remote work and more about flexible working hours.

[0] Having worked in a team with distributed offices, a fairly large company like your partner's can definitely solve this.
I don’t think that has ever been a secret, it’s exactly what it is.
These are probably margin calls for people trading on margin which is 100% legal and the risk you take when trading on margin.
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That's what they advertise via Twit. But if you try to buy even 1 stock of GME on non margin account (our own money only) it doesn't allow you to do that. I have a screenshot for that if you want. And customer support line is overloaded as expected.
Is this new information? If so, we should have an article about it that's more informative than a corporate press release.

Edit: Looks like there are two others. Which is better, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941200 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25940916?
One thing that helps me enormously in figuring the system out is running tests. I was surprised to see no mention of tests in the article.
I think the biggest thing RH offered that they may have been justified in curtailing is fractional stock buys and buys on margin. But to stop trading on buys outright is very strange.
Is there a class of legal argument named "pot calling kettle" that judges can just apply as a label? I sincerely wish for it for my amusement.
Unsurprisingly, this kind of attitude got him kicked of his own project.
So workers have to pay for the costs of the office now -did you think that through
GME has now become a $25B hedge fund with a gaming focus.

I think you're confusing their market cap with their balance sheet. A $25B hedge fund has $25B in assets, but a $25B market cap does not mean that they have access to anywhere near that amount of capital.

Sure, maybe they could issue a dilutive follow-on offering and bring in some cash, but who knows where the stock price will be by the time they get through the paperwork on that. And they're currently losing about half a billion per year on about $6B in revenue, so I'm not sure that an extra billion or so in cash is going to fundamentally remake the company....
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I hope the B-1B is cheaper in terms of total cost to operate than in the Reagan era...I seem to recall chatter that it was something of a hangar queen
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This is an important point, so much of the so-called diversity problem with Silicon Valley is driven by the enforced colocation of techies into a small geographical area in central CA. You also lose out on people that are more family oriented and not apt to move far from where they grew up. There's plenty of smart and talented people that are hard workers who need that kind of proximity to their loved ones and they can't just pack up their whole extended family and move to SV.
Ye I totally get what you mean and I have observed this a lot too.

I think for some people though, this might be an acceptable trade off (even temporarily) where they favor being able to WFH and not need to be tethered to train lines / highways for commuting over being "close to the action".

If companies offered this trade off across the board it would be a good way to retain employees over the long term as your life situation changes (kids etc ...) you can kind still find a place at the same company that can accomodate the lifestyle you desire at that point in time.
My (small) company didn't skip a beat moving from entirely in office to entirely remote. In retrospect we were already having all of our conversations on Slack when we were in the office.

The key was we were always listening to music in our headphones.
It's interesting, when I look at EU supports for entrepreneurship or vc amounts it's largely a question of whether an investment of 6 months' salary is enough to quit my job. The scale is pathetic by comparison to the US.

Although, I'm hoping to bootstrap something here in Europe for my next gig. Public healthcare, insanely cheap houses (compared to California) and cheaper devs should help with runways.
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https://imgur.com/P7BJcZm

Guess we know who they work for...
If they allow selling, who is buying? This is clear market manipulation.
Related theory I've had rattling around my brain recently: a programmer's career velocity is strictly correlated with the percentage of code that they deal with every day that is code of their own making, vs. someone else's. I always get so motivated and productive when I'm building off my own stuff, and pretty grumpy and slow when not.
Good point.

Out of curiosity, has that actually happened to a public stock? I'd assume the minority shareholders would have standing for a lawsuit if someone were to do a hostile takeover of a stock and liquidate the assets of the company.
Totally agree with your perspective. I'm now on a lower difficulty - but still rewarding path - that can still scale over time.
That was very common not long ago. Even the JPEG/EXIF image file format is designed that way. So it's efficient for reading and writing, but introduces a lot of potential bugs with alignment and chunk size issues. Inserting an additional EXIF tag is a huge hassle because then you have to recalculate all the pointers, even those in other data chunks.
Or transferred it to a complicit 3rd party so people would think they closed out their position.
It's a ponzi scheme where early stage investors are forced to buy the products of late stage investors.
We are all commodities... best to shatter that illusion safely before you get hurt.
If anything, I expect more questionable snake oil strategies for hiring and managing remote to come and go. The same old problems predicting actual performance will persist, and honestly probably not any worse than now, but people will try to "solve" them for the new format.

The open office movement should be all anyone needs to see to believe that the no-office movement will have legs. We perpetuated an employment style for years that widely known to be worse for both employees and employers on many levels than a traditional layout, and merely absorbed that as the cost of doing business.

If it works well it'll hit all the much faster, but in tech, anyway, all you need to hear is "less overhead" and "cheap office rental" to know it'll become popular no matter how well it does or doesn't work. I dunno other knowledge worker industries but I can't imagine they're much more altruistic.
Maybe for you it's a news story, but for many of us it's a revolution.
> You cannot force Citadel to make a market for your orders.

That depends on the market maker contract Citadel has with the brokerage(s) and the exchange(s). Although, I don't think the contracts with exchanges are very tight; I don't know about the contracts with brokerages. IIRC, Nasdaq had (has?) a special order type for market makers who didn't want to actually make a market that would put in bid and ask at exactly the maximum contractually allowed spread away from last trade, and withdraw and replace them when any trades did occur; making it much harder to actually trade with the market maker.
ok that is unfortunate I didn't go all the way through with trying to actually buy. I'm a long time customer and they were definitely better before they went public
> Fines mean nothing.

Fines can mean something, if scaled correctly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-fine
But also possible the underlying data was collected by EOD the day prior. Point is it's not a very clear data source IMO. Would be nice if real time short interest was public info.
Yeah, this guy is clearly a source of reliable news! /sarcasm

https://twitter.com/ArkhonDH/status/1354844807013785606
> There are a lot of projects (sudo being the most recent example) supported by a team of developers in the single digits (or just one) that are relied upon by projects raking in millions if not billions in annual revenue.

But the whole reason they are relied upon is them coming for free. If sudo users where expected to give something back it wouldn't have landed on millions of machines in the first place.

FOSS coming for free means, of course, maintenance being dependent on the authors' whims. Not paying means not being owed anything.

Yes, that's not sustainable. FOSS is a gift from the developers to the world. It's not a business model or a way to make a living (at best it's part of a strategy to make a living).

It would be great if we all could gift something back be that help with maintaining or money.

But we should be careful not to demand support. Everyone "whising up" and only relying on software they either maintain themselves or paid someone to maintain might look different than we imagine. Might just be people buying proprietary software rather than funding open source development.
Almost a year in, it seems like there isn't a clear consensus in whether or not we (as a whole) are more productive when working distributed. If there isn't a clear winner, I would hope that companies would err on the side of improving employee well-being by providing flexibility.

At the individual level, productivity in office VS at home varies depending on your personal circumstances, preferences, and role. I hope larger companies realize that a one-size-fits-all policy isn't the best solution.

Instead, I'd like them to allow individual teams to decide what options they want to allow within the team (full-time in office, work from home N days/week, full-time remote, etc.) Then the team can develop norms and processes for work and communication that make sense.
It may be they bought and sold back and forth rapidly and the unsettled trades are considered on margin even if it was mostly netted out in and out of the same stock. Doing it without settlement itself is similar to naked shorting, because while it should all net out, trades can bust, especially in a short squeeze where people's long positions have been loaned out.
Check out this video of Ukrainian police raiding the apartment of a suspected Emotet operator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BLOmClsSpc&feature=emb_logo
lol... yes. UTF-512 should be enough for everybody!
It isn't. People buy it to laugh, not to make money.
A lot of Bay Area tech companies have basically been constantly hiring for a decade, with a lot of new companies constantly being formed as well. Talk to those folks who've been hired, and a large portion of them did not live in the Bay Area a decade ago.

The rental prices and turnover speed are another indicator of this - sure, the ones buying houses are the ones who've hit the stock jackpot, but the competition for places of any sort is intensified by the importation of well-paid talent.
If I were running Robinhood, I'd be inclined to continue to allow trading*, but perhaps with a popup message with language that legal approved to suggest that people should be certain of what they were doing when creating new positions in high-vol securities and would have 100% margin requirements on high-vol securities now. So, I agree with you that I'd, on balance, prefer to see trading open in these names. I think people should do what they want with their money, even if I think it's stupid and likely to end badly.

At the same time, parabolic moves like this have never once in the history of markets been sustained over a long period of time. It's possible that this will be the first one ever, but I am indeed making a prediction that it will not be. You are correct that I might be wrong about that.

* - All this assumes that my clearing firm would continue clearing the orders, which is uncertain at the moment. If my clearing firm won't book the orders, I literally can't do anything except cajol, plead, or sue them.
Let's not beat around the bush, RH doesn't care about it's users, it cares about it's clients. Including Citadel, who has a LOT to lose if all the options are ITM tomorrow.
Maybe you should improve your home life... that's really sad, man. You deserve better.

If you hate your family so much why don't you move in with roommates? I don't talk to my family either.
Isn’t this a really bad comparison though? Most entrepreneurs own small (I mean small) businesses providing services and employment to a mostly local area. Bill Gates and his dad are not representative of most small business owners, and seem rather immaterial to a conversation about entrepreneur success.
I find myself beginning sentences with conjunctions. I try to edit it out most of the time, but I'm not fanatical about it. I think it reads more clearly to the original writer than it does to a reader.

You're absolutely correct about the paragraphs. A paragraph is a tool for organizing your document. If you have only one sentence per paragraph, you're sacrificing that tool. You already have the period to separate sentences, so you should use paragraph separators to group sentences into a coherent thought.

The rule of thumb is 3-5 sentences per paragraph. It's not ironclad, but if you find yourself breaking it often, you're probably doing something wrong.
Ask HN: How much money was invested into Gamestop over the last two weeks?
Gamestop is at a $16B market cap now. Up from less the $2B a month ago. I wonder how much money had to be invested into it to get it to that level.

Everyone says retail investors reading Reddit are such a force now that it can move the needle on a stock. But how much money does it actually need to move a needle from $2B to $16B? For all I know it could have been a single share that has been traded back and forth from one pocket to the other of a loner in Gelsenkirchen.

Anybody here with more insights on how to estimate the real amount of money that was invested?
I see it more like RH knowing this thing is probably going to tumble really hard and many of their customers might be holding part of the bag (with borrowed RH money) when it does implode, so they're limiting further exposure.
> I believe they are committing fraud and stock manipulation.

The stock is already manipulated, though. No one racing to buy GME is doing so because a genuine desire to receive dividends, exercise voting power over corporate governance, etc... They're doing it because they read on wallstreetbets that a magical "short call" was coming tomorrow which would spike the stock.

That's a SCAM. It's not going to happen that way. The owners of all those early shorts have already settled their positions (and, yes, lost a lot of money in the process) and all you're seeing now is a tulip-style pump and dump.

You got scammed. You're not a hero. Robinhood might well not be acting in your best interests but they almost certainly saved you money.
I think probably "moral" in the sense that it's not considered your fault to have type 1 diabetes. Type 2 is brought on by poor diet and exercise so it is the "immoral" version.

Though I think the science on what drives hunger cravings and "willpower" and fat storage this leading to obesity is still in its infancy.
Most or many of RH's competitors have similar restrictions, however. Hints that the ratio of 'big money' going long was on the rise, and/or short sellers closing their positions. Also, foreign money potentially.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25941431
> wouldn't we have seen much more volume if they had actually closed out their position?

More than what? GameStop was the most traded stock in the country for a few days.
Until they release their statements we have no way of knowing.

If you want to take what they say at face value, go for it, but I don't believe them.
I don't have anything to add, but I wanted to thank you for sharing this story. I have also noticed this lack of empathy, in myself and others, and I don't have any easy solutions.
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I think we have to give the SEC a bit of time before passing judgment.
...it was halted on a few platforms, but there are many brokerages where buying was not halted.
Clearly I haven't been paying attention to mpv close enough.
When are all the noble protectors going to turn their attention to convenience stores and gas stations? They shamelessly sell lottery tickets every single day to unsuspecting bag holders. It's in at least 99% of their interest not to be able to buy those tickets.
I agree on the importance of inflation, but with a difference in how it happens.

Bitcoin currently inflates slightly. I think it should target a 1-2% steady inflation forever both to encourage spending and to replace lost coinage.

At the same time, inflation should not be a spending power advantage. By distributing inflation among miners, you don't give disproportionate advantage to any one group like governments currently enjoy. I view this as more fair and it removes the incentive to attempt to change inflation rates in the future.
I think that "after the dust settles" may not be such a specific point.

We sit at our desks and communicate via IM & email anyway. The internet has changed reality, and changed a lot of the underlying logic for the status quo. Social distancing for a whole year is one hell of a catalyst.

Meanwhile, there are real economic factors like large housing cost and wage disparities between (often nearby) locations. Reasons why remote isn't always good notwithstanding, underlying economics exerts has a ratchet like influence. ...Not to mention globalisation.

So yes, I agree that the maximalist prediction is overblown. That said, I think this is a complex chain-of-events type of process that is now going to be moving faster. Companies are now more experienced/capable of remote. Employees are more capable of it. People have an understanding of it, how to fix it, etc.

It's a combination of prevailing wind and gust of wind.
As multiple people mentioned they have added support for transferring with a $75 fee:

https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/transfer-stocks...

I can't find a history that shows when they added this, but it appears they at least added transfers in a few years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/RobinHood/comments/6tre6o/transfer_...
There's a pretty direct line of causation from the rollback of some regulations and lack of enforcement of others to that. That crisis was a reminder of why we have these sorts of regulations and an example of why we should enforce them.
How it appears to the client would depend on the broker, the software, the situation, etc.
how are pentagon planners dealing w/ emerging tech hacking/jamming/spoofing GPS signals? I recall something along this sort being posted to HN a few days back, as well as this being perhaps the means of how Iran captured a US drone several years ago...
> I think to put a finer point on it, if you grow up in an environment where your family expects you to succeed and be wealthy, where your peers are expected to also succeed and be wealthy it gives you both the training, the knowledge, and drive to succeed.

Yea, but more importantly it also gives you easy access to capital.
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Robinhood now has a 1-Star rating on the Google Play Store
Doge cryptocurrency can also be added to the list of Robinhood's halted buys for today.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841059
What if the problem with free speech on the internet is not technological but rather anonymity? In the Ender's Game sequels, they have two different networks. One that is anonymous and a wild west and another that is only accessible with a verified identity.
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What if the price goes up further? It's already rebounded 50% from the short ladder/blatant robinhood manipulation. Why put yourself on the hook for something during a black swan event?
Justin Kan (Twitch founder) is calling for Ken Griffin and Robinhood's co-founders to jailed.

> Just got a tip that Citadel reloaded their shorts before they told Robinhood to stop trading $GME.

> If this is true, Ken Griffin and the Robinhood founders should be in jail.

> This is class warfare.

See https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1354856228661334017.
You've been defending the actions of the brokers and defending the hedge funds since yesterday. What's up? Hate the little guy much?
The fun part is that this depends entirely on the audience. Not only the demographic, but also what prior instructions they received.

Seeing that sign without further context, I assume this is a bin full of sharpies (could be wrong), and that it is supposed to be left slightly open. How closed "partially" closed is I would have to guess.

But if this is for a group of students in an art class that have all been clearly instructed how to handle this bin (see "remember to"), it might be the perfect reminder. Meaning "Close it to the degree you've been shown in the first lesson".
I mean they had years after the 2007/08 crash, and nobody went to jail or even lost their license.
2015 "Ghost Fleet" scifi novel elaborates on technology likely to rule the battlefield. I listened to the audiobook, twice. Its good.
You're not the product, it's a wrong analogy. You simply pay hidden fees embedded in the slightly higher price you pay.
Judging by the 404 error, I'd say that it's definitely not a Windows executable or anything else.
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?? I asked the question more because I was just curious if there are legitimately like mid-30 year old groups of friends that haven't grown out of this "4chan attitude" of using the n-word, calling people "autists", etc.

I didn't ask out of a sense of voyeurism. More like a, "dang, is this something I need to watch out for when I get older?"
Thankfully the days of ramming people into ever smaller footprints seems to be reversing
Well, there's certainly an abundance of rumours and gossip. This tweet has been widely circulated among UK trading/fund employees.

https://twitter.com/justinkan/status/1354853920762253315?s=2...

But it's all getting murkier as it all gets louder.
Luckily/unluckily, companies can operate just fine with tiered systems. They're often more comfortable with this kind of structure.
I'd love to hear why they think JPEG is a worse format.
For one Bill Gates there are probably a million of other successful entrepreneurs who likely started poorer than you.
It's time to immediately evaluate many systems in their current form.
The GME shareholders that WSB turned into billionaires thank you for your revolutionary service
What's the window of time used here and how frequently is it updated?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25947168
> Use WeBull instead

I was going to say "that didn't age well", but their plug for WeBull came hours after WeBull already announced their own trade restrictions.

https://twitter.com/webullglobal/status/1354828729713881091
Dang, they must use Apex too (as Apex blocked these stocks). Trade went through fine for me this morning.